Re: nut flour and day 3

February 23, 2004

Kathy,

Try the cashew butter muffin recipe at peacanbread.com. I use peanut

butter and they come out great. It's easier to digest, the look like

regular muffins, have the texture of regular muffins, taste great, and

have no honey in them!!! I'm going to try mixing in some cooked

chopped pear this week.....yum

Chrystee

Sam, 4.5, behavior/sensory issues

SCD 3 weeks

On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Hudson wrote:

> Hi everyone,

> Abby is on day three and eating everything I've given her (except the

> soup). She is drinking the prune/oj and hot tea like she just loves

> it. I cut her Miralax in half and she got up and had a brownish soft

> stool this morning. She even ate a carrot last night which I have

> never seen her do. She is wanting to drink a lot of water which I

> never see her do either. She had speech this morning and the

> therapist said this is the most verbal she's ever seen her. I'm not

> trying to read too much into this because she is still stimming a lot,

> has a lot of OCD issues and she picks her fingernails constantly, but

> I feel good about this diet. Thanks to everyone for all the advice.

> I noticed that a lot of you make muffins and I want to make the

> pancakes with the cup of almond flour but think it may be too soon.

> Should I try it and see what happens? She hasn't had a negative

> reaction yet. Abby ate a hamburger grilled with some garlic and

> carrot hidden inside last night for dinner. Was that o.k. for the

> beginning of this? Thanks. (she prefers beef to chicken so I buy it

> at Whole Foods------no antibiotic, hormones, etc.

> Kathy

> mom of Abby-9 ASD, OCD,UC and Hannah-13

>

February 23, 2004

My personal experience is that if you can avoid nut flour for awhile

(weeks!), you will probably be better off. See the " Stages "

document on pecanbread.com for an idea of what order to introduce

foods. The key is, go slow, peel, deseed, and cook all fruits and

veg, try to use easier to digest foods first. If you add only one

new food every 4-5 days, you can see that it will take awhile to get

to stage 3 foods (which is where nut flour is), even if you don't

try EVERY vegetable.

We did SCD without doing the intro first, and then SEVERAL months

later did the intro and added foods very slowly. It was over 6

weeks before I used nutflours regularly the second time. We saw

obvious changes after doing the intro which we had not seen before.

If you want bread type thing, try chicken pancakes or sneaky

pancakes, or chicken cupcakes (someone once even posted an egg

muffin) on pecanbread recipes.

We use beef regularly. My kids prefer beef too. Broiled burgers

are allowed in the intro diet. At the beginning, Adam at hamburgers

3 times a day. He still eats beef several times a week.

Meatloaf, meatballs, with or without different veggies can vary the

taste.

-- Sue, mom to Adam and

SCD 4 months (I count from when we started over on teh intro,

because that's when I saw improvement and am sure we were doing it

right).

February 23, 2004

Hi Kathy,

It's too soon for the nut flours. For future reference, when we

fed our son the almond nut flour when we were slowly transitioning

to legal SCD foods, they were very constipating for him. Someone

mentioned using pecan flour instead which I haven't tried yet since

we are still on stage 1 of the diet. It was also mentioned to start

out with the nut BUTTERS before the nut flours to ease into the nuts

and see which agree and don't agree. My son wanted something to eat

that was cake so we tried the peanut butter brownies and that was

constipating for him, so we cut out the peanut butter and his stools

returned to a soft consistency. Then we got into yeast and started

GSE and the hard stools returned, bummers, we may have killed off

too many bacteria in the gut. Anyways, hope this helps somewhat and

good to see that Abby is eating some veggies. Oh, try using

steamed, pureed carrots in the sneaky veggie pancake recipe if your

daughter can eat eggs, that was a winner for our son when the almond

pancakes, peanut butter pancakes and banana pancakes made him

constipated. Take care, Becky in Chesapeake, VA with 10 yr old on

SCD 3 weeks

> Hi everyone,

> Abby is on day three and eating everything I've given her (except

the soup). She is drinking the prune/oj and hot tea like she just

loves it. I cut her Miralax in half and she got up and had a

brownish soft stool this morning. She even ate a carrot last night

which I have never seen her do. She is wanting to drink a lot of

water which I never see her do either. She had speech this morning

and the therapist said this is the most verbal she's ever seen her.

I'm not trying to read too much into this because she is still

stimming a lot, has a lot of OCD issues and she picks her

fingernails constantly, but I feel good about this diet. Thanks to

everyone for all the advice. I noticed that a lot of you make

muffins and I want to make the pancakes with the cup of almond flour

but think it may be too soon. Should I try it and see what

happens? She hasn't had a negative reaction yet. Abby ate a

hamburger grilled with some garlic and carrot hidden inside last

night for dinner. Was that o.k. for the beginning of this?

Thanks. (she prefers beef to chicken so I buy it at Whole Foods-----

-no antibiotic, hormones, etc.

> Kathy

> mom of Abby-9 ASD, OCD,UC and Hannah-13

>

February 23, 2004

I made those muffins tonight and they were awesome. Abby ate one and she

ordinarily can't stand that type of texture. I think she is so hungry she's

desperate to eat whatever I give her. Thanks,

Kathy

3 days on SCD